Canons and values : ancient to modern
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Canons and values : ancient to modern
（Issues & debates）
Getty The Research Institute, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword / Thomas Gaehtgens
- Introduction: canons in world perspective-definitions, deformations, and discourses / Larry Silver
- Canons: systems of proportions in ancient Egypt, India, and Greece / Adolf H. Borbein
- Object(s)-value(s)-canon(s) / John K. Papadopoulos
- Body canons in South America / Gary Urton
- A temple without a name: Deccan architecture and the canon for sacred Indian buildings / Subhashini Kaligotla
- The 500 faces of Teotihuacan: masks and the formation of Mesoamerican canons / Matthew H. Robb
- "One flower from each garden": contradiction and collaboration in the canon of Mughal painters / Yael Rice
- Canons seen and unseen in colonial Mexico / Kevin Terraciano
- The enduring burin in early nineteenth-century Paris / Louis Marchesano
- Making the canon visible: art historical book series in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Friederike Kitschen
- The naked fetish: Carl Einstein and the Western canon of African art / Uwe Fleckner
- Forging the myth of Brazilian modernism / Rafael Cardoso
- Jewish art and modernity / Larry Silver
- Contributors
- Illustration credits
- Index
